For some good news, I’m seeking a co-op for the fall and I had several interviews last week and a few more next week. I was notified by e-mail today that one company (in PA) wants to do a second interview, and another company in NY wants to do a technical phone screener. They’re both really good jobs, so I’ll have to do more preparation.
I’m pretty confident with my interviews so far, and I’ll find out if I have a job in a couple weeks. I am a bit upset that in my first interview, I made the cardinal mistake of not researching the company, and pretty much dropped the ball for a $30/h job.
Heads up for rural and semi-rural dopers who need cash. If there’s a seed corn factory near by then hit them up.They’ll need people for roguing soon. Roguing is removing male corn from the female rows. It runs for a month or so and pays okay money.
Later on in the year they’ll need sorters. It’s a good way to make some money.
Okay…we’re on a roll now! Go barking and Biblio!!!
My interview went well today. It is definitely a job I want and I really liked the guy that I interviewed with today who is the one who would be training the new person (me!!!).
I’ll hopefully get a call next week regarding a second interview.
Recently (last week sometime) did one of the periodic resume updates/reloads at Careerbuilder and Monster, and just got the following email:
It’s from an “Executive Recruiter” at CareersRUs (not the real firm name).
Is there any reason to think this is spam or a scam or something I should ignore? If he wants a Word version of my resume, why doesn’t he just cut and paste it himself from the website – whichever one it was, he doesn’t say.
I don’t think it’s a scam, but it’s probably bullshit. Often just some crap recruiting firm building their database. The reason recruiters want you to submit a word version is because I don’t think they can submit a resume on your behalf from Careerbuilder or Monster.
You know it’s a legitimate position when you are able to speak to an actual headhunter who then can describe and send you an actual job req from his client.
I found out recently that the company I’m interviewing for in NY has incredibly elite hiring standards. They chose me for an interview, but there’s only so much I can prepare for the kind of candidate they’re looking for. Even if I did get the job, I doubt I could live up to their standards.
Here’s a question that they have asked past candidates. I really haven’t seen such an ingenious and devious problem in a long time.
They claim to hire only 0.5% of the applications they receive, and their applicant pool is already quite selective. I imagine it’s pretty much that 1 in 200 who will nail this question, and it’s the person they’re looking for.
I figure it’ll be fun for dopers to take a stab at it. Something to do during the job search at least!
Ok, here’s my guess. The last person in line should call out the color of the first person in line. The second-to-last should call out the second person’s color, and so on. That way, the front half of the line would be saved and the last half still has the same chance as before.
With the correct strategy, you can save almost everyone. The optimal solution is very obvious when given the answer, but I never would’ve been able to come up with it.
How about the last person in line calls out the color of the cap of the person in front of him, let’s say it’s blue. This gives him a 50/50 shot of getting it right and assures the second person will be saved. The second person, knowing the color of his own hat and that of the person in front of him, either states “Blue” if they have the same color cap or “Blue?” in an inflected tone if they have different color caps. Everyone but the first person is assured of being saved.
